Thanksgiving Flower Cake Using Russian Tips

Every once in a while I will do a cake with full multi colour butter cream decoration. For my family's Thanksgiving dinner I volunteered to make a dessert. I made an 8" three layer pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese filling.

After baking the cake the most tedious task is preparing all the icing to do the decorating.

Russian tips are not as easy as they look. For some tips the icing has to be the right consistency and temperature or they come out like blobs. I learned this the hard way. Once you do get the right consistency you have a small window get out as many flowers as you can before they come out as blobs again!

Definitely take the time to practice as each tip works differently. In the end I was pleasantly surprised with how it turned out.

Regardless the cake was yummy and was shared with family.

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